Inspirational Quotes

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Stephen King on Writing

“Writing isn’t about making money, getting famous, getting dates, getting laid, or making friends. In the end, it’s about enriching the lives of those who will read your work, and enriching your own life, as well.”

- Stephen King

Anais Nin on Courage

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”

- Anais Nin

Michael Jordan on Failure and Perseverance

“I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the win­ning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”

- Michael Jordan

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on Focus

“Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.”

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Theodore Roosevelt on Critics, Perseverance and Courage

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”

- Theodore Roosevelt

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